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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w24893
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1 Online-Ressource; illustrations (black and white)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w24893
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Description:
Empirical analyses of climatic event impacts on growth, while critical for policy, have been slow to be incorporated into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for tropical cyclones. First, we review competing empirical approaches in a harmonized global dataset and through a theory lens. Second, we estimate cyclone impacts on structural determinants of growth (productivity, depreciation, fatalities) to quantify a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes. Third, we compute cyclone impacts on the social cost of carbon in the seminal DICE model